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Almost 100 years ago, four men wrote a letter while on their way to war in Europe. They sealed the letter in a bottle and tossed it overboard off the coast of Western Australia. Twenty years later it was found, but it was only recently discovered that the bottle has links to Ballarat. ...

Ted Cannon's drawings and newspaper cartoons inspired his teachers and entertained the good folk of Ballarat before he headed off to World War 1; his letters back home, shared in the Courier, made him a household name. Nearly 100 years after his death in the fateful battle for Hill 60 at Ypres, a ...

It's been 100 years since 8,700 Australians and 87,000 Turkish soldiers were killed in Gallipoli. The story of the Turkish soldiers remains untold to many Australians, but historian Harvey Broadbent has detailed the battle from other side for the first time. ...